31.   Showers are forecast on Friday in the city of Talca, close to hydroelectric plants run by Colbun, the second-biggest hydroelectric generator after Endesa.

32.   So producers around the country want the flexibility offered by hydroelectric plants and are paying a big premium to get them.

33.   Suddenly, the unruly river was captured in a series of reservoirs, churning out cheap power from hydroelectric plants.

34.   Tanjug said NATO also attacked the Bistrica hydroelectric plant near the southern Serb town of Nova Varos on Wednesday.

35.   That harnesses otherwise unused power, much the way that a hydroelectric generating plant uses falling water to make electricity.

36.   The company also bought the rights to operate two thermal plants and four hydroelectric plants near Ust-Kamenogorsk, in eastern Kazakhstan.

37.   The company declined to say whether it had proposed such a hydroelectric plant.

38.   The commission lacks regulatory authority over municipal utilities, federal hydroelectric plants and rural electricity cooperatives.

39.   The Central Maine hydroelectric plants are among the lowest-cost power producers in New England, FPL Chairman Jim Broadhead said.

40.   The drought forced farmers to harvest crops earlier than normal and slashed generating capacity at hydroelectric plants.